Wow, that's surprising but you are right. The webkit team has a list of all apps that use webkit and, indeed, iTunes is not one of them.
I'd be willing to bet that they use *some* form of html/xml renderer, but the decision to not use Webkit is curious. I wonder if they are afraid falling in the same trap that IE did, where exploits discovered in the renderer could be leveraged in other applications that use it (most notably Outlook).
his clear anti-torture stance - which went against the general Republican stance at the time - was something he should be admired for
It's funny you pull mention his talking-point on waterboarding, because John McCain in fact voted against a ban on waterboarding. So his stance is maybe not as clear as you think.
What Obama supporters (of which I count myself one) don't seem to get is that this Joe guy is the issue. He's not. Tear him down as much as you want, it doesn't help your case one bit.
The thing is, the only reason why the Right grabbed onto this was not Joe's question, but Obama's answer. That "Spread the wealth around" soundbite has been a goldmine republicans trying to invoke scary images of Karl Marx. And to be fair I think this was a major gaffe on Obama's part. Personally, I don't want to spread the wealth just for the sake of it. People that work hard to acquire their wealth under a fair system shouldn't be punished for being wealthy. But it needs to be a fair system.
Obviously Obama misspoke - I don't think he intends to implement marxism. But that's the perception that some people had and that perception is what needs to be attacted by the Obama camp.
This effort to vilify and discredit "Joe the Plumber" is disgraceful. The man asked a damn question. Obama should have done a better job answering it. Period.
Yes, well, murder is like that. You try to tell the jury about all the people your *didn't* kill, but they still end up focusing on the people you did murder... no matter how small the number.
The Church of England got miffed when one of their churches was featured prominently in one of the levels of Resistance: Fall Of Man. This is a seemingly bigger offense than including a couple snippets of the Quran, yet Sony refused to recall the game.
While I'm sure it's more efficient to drive at an average of 60mph than, say, 80mph, isn't the amount of gas consumption ultimately dictated by the RPM's?
I do a lot of city driving and it's not likely I'll I reach 60mph anyway. That said I admit that I tend to do a lot of "jackrabbit" starts, and get the rpm's up to 6000 while accelerating after a green light. Is there much benefit to keeping my rpm's under 3000 in this scenario or is the fuel savings negligible?
How do you *know* that it's Apple's software updater that's causing the UAC box to appear, and not an opportunistic bit of malware that's been watching for the software update dialog to show up?
You're presupposing that the vista box in question has already been corrupted by malware. Isn't your question moot then?
Furthermore, why would the malware need to sit in wait for the software update dialog to show up. Why not invoke the sofware updater, or better yet just fake a software update dialog?
In light of this newly discovered piece of illicit content, the ESRB has fined Media Molecule and slapped the game with an M rating.
Jack Thompson was quoted as saying "Oh, what cruel irony is this!? At a time when Sony has unleashed this family destroying game murder-simulating calculator on our children, I am no longer a lawyer!!"
While there are a few situations I've been in where the ability to exceed 80 mph has been critical to safety (getting out from behind dangerous drivers on the freeway who are liable to cause a pileup, for instance), that's not the point.
Yeah, and there are a few situations where it is less safe to wear a seat belt. However, these occurances are dwarfed by the number of situations where a seatbelt saves your life. So you wear it.
I'm young enough to remember how much of an idiot I was when I first started driving. However, back in the early 90's we didn't have this fancy-schmancy MyKey technology. So my dad bought me a 1980 Chevy LUV with a broken radio and no A/C.
It might have gone faster than 75mph, but the horror-inducing sound it made at that speed ensured that I never even tried. I never had friends distracting me while driving (because they wouldn't be caught dead in my ride). I never drove in bad weather because the wipers didn't work. I was convinced he hated me, but now I realize that he was a genius that loved me very much.
I don't have much experience beyond that but I can say that 2 days == 30 days == 12 hours == 1 minute
I dunno man. I'll admit I've never been arrested, and I ain't gonna argue that your situation wasn't outrageous... because it sounds like it was. But if I had to spend time in jail for a bureaucratic screwup, I'd rather spend 1 minute than 23 days (let alone two years).
Again, my point wasn't to say that countries like the Germany & USA don't have problems. They do. But... it's not like you've been thrown in jail for a journal entry, right?
Are you referring to the Prevention of Terrorism Acts? From what I can tell you could be held for up to seven days without being formally charged with a crime. It would be a *big* stretch to equate this with Malaysia's Internal Security Act, under which they can hold you *indefinitely* (though the Malaysian government claims that Kamarudin will be held for at least two years).
I'm not making the claim that these other countries are perfect. I'm refuting the GP's claim that all countries are just as bad. To say such a thing is just lazy relativism that trivializes the situation that this blogger is in.
Really? Happens all the time? Interesting. Then I suppose you can cite one instance in the USA, UK, Germany, or Australia where a citizen has been incarcerated for a minimum of two years without trial for a blog post that is critical of the government. Go ahead and include some links under my post. Take your time. I'll wait.
Your post is offensive on multiple levels: It minimizes Kamarudin's plight ("well what else should you expect when you criticize the government?"), but it also makes the claim that *every* other nation has just as bad a civil rights record. I can tell that you've never spent much time in Malaysia.
Is there any reason to believe that Blizzard is going to take any of these questions seriously, unlike the last Blizzard interview that appeared on slashdot?
For example, Nintendo appears to have announced a 300,000 pixel camera (0.3 megapixel), yet it's also being reported as a 3 megapixel camera.
I'm sure we'll find out shortly, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that both figures are accurate. The pics indicate that it has two cameras (one on the outside of the clamshell and the inside camera the middle of the hinge facing the user. My guess is that the low resolution is on the inside to facilitate stuff like video-enabled chat.
Are you implying that the this story is a dupe? It's not really, when you read TFA's. The article from the previous slashdot story is from before Toshiba has released anything. Now the battery is out (for industrial applications), and the most recent slashdot article refers to Toshiba's laptop battery prototype.
Shortly after Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was released, a modder released a "topless" mod for the female characters. The ESRB, fearful of another "Hot Coffee" incident, re-evaluated the game and changed the rating from "T" to "M", forcing 2K Games to republish the game with updated box art. I remember thinking to myself, "well, there goes the mod tools".
Sure enough, the next game that Bethesda released doesn't include a mod tool. The Oblivion rating fiasco may not be the only reason but I'll wager it was a factor. And if game creators are being held responsible for the actions of modders, can you blame them?
Ironically this sorta validates the claim made by the study. Neither the article submitter nor the slashdot editor bothered to read the dialog completely. Otherwise they would have seen the caption explaining that the "screenshot" was a joke.
I admit though that I have a pop-up "blind spot". I just look for an "X" in the upper right corner and rarely pay attention to what it says. I am surprised that people tend to click the "Okay" or "Yes" button to dismiss them.
I've never been a huge fan "educational" games. I do think there are some good titles, but I think that the majority of educational games fail because they think that the emphasis is on being "educational". The underlying game has to be fun or the kid will throw it aside.
That said, I think that *all* games are educational. When my daughter was three she picked up my wife's Animal Crossing game and fell in love with it. I sat down and played with her and read all dialogue. Eventually I had to read to her less and less as she was increasingly able to recognize words. Today she's five and reads at a 3rd-grade level. Obviously it's not solely due to games like Animal Crossing, but I think it certainly helped.
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Yahoo: Hey, wanna buy us?
Msft: Hey, remember how we tried to buy you and you repeatedly said "no" and caused us much embarrassment?
Yahoo: Well, yeah.
Msft: Good then. FUCK OFF.
Wow, that's surprising but you are right. The webkit team has a list of all apps that use webkit and, indeed, iTunes is not one of them.
I'd be willing to bet that they use *some* form of html/xml renderer, but the decision to not use Webkit is curious. I wonder if they are afraid falling in the same trap that IE did, where exploits discovered in the renderer could be leveraged in other applications that use it (most notably Outlook).
So what the hell, is Austrailia trying to out-Big-Brother the U.S. or something?
It's funny you pull mention his talking-point on waterboarding, because John McCain in fact voted against a ban on waterboarding. So his stance is maybe not as clear as you think.
Regardless of what people say, I'm much happier with the choices this election that in the previous one.
Though I voted for Obama, I have great respect for John McCain. That is much more than I can say for either George Bush or John Kerry.
But doesn't he explicitly mention "MySpace" in White and Nerdy? Does that get bleeped out?
When you complete Helter Skelter on "Expert" mode, you actually do get blisters on your fingers!!!
Actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea for an achievement name.
What Obama supporters (of which I count myself one) don't seem to get is that this Joe guy is the issue. He's not. Tear him down as much as you want, it doesn't help your case one bit.
The thing is, the only reason why the Right grabbed onto this was not Joe's question, but Obama's answer. That "Spread the wealth around" soundbite has been a goldmine republicans trying to invoke scary images of Karl Marx. And to be fair I think this was a major gaffe on Obama's part. Personally, I don't want to spread the wealth just for the sake of it. People that work hard to acquire their wealth under a fair system shouldn't be punished for being wealthy. But it needs to be a fair system.
Obviously Obama misspoke - I don't think he intends to implement marxism. But that's the perception that some people had and that perception is what needs to be attacted by the Obama camp.
This effort to vilify and discredit "Joe the Plumber" is disgraceful. The man asked a damn question. Obama should have done a better job answering it. Period.
Yes, well, murder is like that. You try to tell the jury about all the people your *didn't* kill, but they still end up focusing on the people you did murder... no matter how small the number.
The Church of England got miffed when one of their churches was featured prominently in one of the levels of Resistance: Fall Of Man. This is a seemingly bigger offense than including a couple snippets of the Quran, yet Sony refused to recall the game.
While I'm sure it's more efficient to drive at an average of 60mph than, say, 80mph, isn't the amount of gas consumption ultimately dictated by the RPM's?
I do a lot of city driving and it's not likely I'll I reach 60mph anyway. That said I admit that I tend to do a lot of "jackrabbit" starts, and get the rpm's up to 6000 while accelerating after a green light. Is there much benefit to keeping my rpm's under 3000 in this scenario or is the fuel savings negligible?
You're presupposing that the vista box in question has already been corrupted by malware. Isn't your question moot then?
Furthermore, why would the malware need to sit in wait for the software update dialog to show up. Why not invoke the sofware updater, or better yet just fake a software update dialog?
In light of this newly discovered piece of illicit content, the ESRB has fined Media Molecule and slapped the game with an M rating.
Jack Thompson was quoted as saying "Oh, what cruel irony is this!? At a time when Sony has unleashed this family destroying game murder-simulating calculator on our children, I am no longer a lawyer!!"
Yeah, and there are a few situations where it is less safe to wear a seat belt. However, these occurances are dwarfed by the number of situations where a seatbelt saves your life. So you wear it.
I'm young enough to remember how much of an idiot I was when I first started driving. However, back in the early 90's we didn't have this fancy-schmancy MyKey technology. So my dad bought me a 1980 Chevy LUV with a broken radio and no A/C.
It might have gone faster than 75mph, but the horror-inducing sound it made at that speed ensured that I never even tried. I never had friends distracting me while driving (because they wouldn't be caught dead in my ride). I never drove in bad weather because the wipers didn't work. I was convinced he hated me, but now I realize that he was a genius that loved me very much.
I dunno man. I'll admit I've never been arrested, and I ain't gonna argue that your situation wasn't outrageous... because it sounds like it was. But if I had to spend time in jail for a bureaucratic screwup, I'd rather spend 1 minute than 23 days (let alone two years).
Again, my point wasn't to say that countries like the Germany & USA don't have problems. They do. But... it's not like you've been thrown in jail for a journal entry, right?
Are you referring to the Prevention of Terrorism Acts? From what I can tell you could be held for up to seven days without being formally charged with a crime. It would be a *big* stretch to equate this with Malaysia's Internal Security Act, under which they can hold you *indefinitely* (though the Malaysian government claims that Kamarudin will be held for at least two years).
I'm not making the claim that these other countries are perfect. I'm refuting the GP's claim that all countries are just as bad. To say such a thing is just lazy relativism that trivializes the situation that this blogger is in.
Really? Happens all the time? Interesting. Then I suppose you can cite one instance in the USA, UK, Germany, or Australia where a citizen has been incarcerated for a minimum of two years without trial for a blog post that is critical of the government. Go ahead and include some links under my post. Take your time. I'll wait.
Your post is offensive on multiple levels: It minimizes Kamarudin's plight ("well what else should you expect when you criticize the government?"), but it also makes the claim that *every* other nation has just as bad a civil rights record. I can tell that you've never spent much time in Malaysia.
Is there any reason to believe that Blizzard is going to take any of these questions seriously, unlike the last Blizzard interview that appeared on slashdot?
Out of curiosity, are you the same guy that was complaining when they bogged down your monochrome gameboy with all those pesky colors ?
It loses the GBA port but also increases screen size, decreases weight, and becomes more slim, and adds video chat. Seems kinda cool to me.
And it's not like the DSLite is going away anytime soon. You could still buy the DSFat long after the lite was released.
I'm sure we'll find out shortly, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that both figures are accurate.
The pics indicate that it has two cameras (one on the outside of the clamshell and the inside camera the middle of the hinge facing the user. My guess is that the low resolution is on the inside to facilitate stuff like video-enabled chat.
Are you implying that the this story is a dupe? It's not really, when you read TFA's. The article from the previous slashdot story is from before Toshiba has released anything. Now the battery is out (for industrial applications), and the most recent slashdot article refers to Toshiba's laptop battery prototype.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Of course I'm buying the game either way, but mod tools will be very cool too.
Shortly after Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was released, a modder released a "topless" mod for the female characters. The ESRB, fearful of another "Hot Coffee" incident, re-evaluated the game and changed the rating from "T" to "M", forcing 2K Games to republish the game with updated box art. I remember thinking to myself, "well, there goes the mod tools".
Sure enough, the next game that Bethesda released doesn't include a mod tool. The Oblivion rating fiasco may not be the only reason but I'll wager it was a factor. And if game creators are being held responsible for the actions of modders, can you blame them?
Ironically this sorta validates the claim made by the study. Neither the article submitter nor the slashdot editor bothered to read the dialog completely. Otherwise they would have seen the caption explaining that the "screenshot" was a joke.
I admit though that I have a pop-up "blind spot". I just look for an "X" in the upper right corner and rarely pay attention to what it says. I am surprised that people tend to click the "Okay" or "Yes" button to dismiss them.
I've never been a huge fan "educational" games. I do think there are some good titles, but I think that the majority of educational games fail because they think that the emphasis is on being "educational". The underlying game has to be fun or the kid will throw it aside.
That said, I think that *all* games are educational. When my daughter was three she picked up my wife's Animal Crossing game and fell in love with it. I sat down and played with her and read all dialogue. Eventually I had to read to her less and less as she was increasingly able to recognize words. Today she's five and reads at a 3rd-grade level. Obviously it's not solely due to games like Animal Crossing, but I think it certainly helped.